Today, like many other days, is an ordinary day for most of us. While we may accent the day with a special meeting, presentation, or discussion, likely the day will not be extraordinary. And that is okay because in the ordinary is how we get things done, be who we are, and move through life. Today’s Purposed worKING is not going to be the ordinary though as I would like to leave you with the thoughts of Josemaria Escriva from a message he delivered in 1967. He summarizes much of what Purposed worKING tries to say to us:

“Everyday life is the true setting for your lives as Christians. Your daily encounters with Christ takes place where your fellow men, your yearnings, your work, and your affections are…God is calling you to serve him in and from the ordinary, secular, and civil activities of human life. He waits for us everyday, in the laboratory, in the operating theater, in the army barracks, in the university chair, in the factory, in the workshop, in the fields, in the home, and in all the immense panorama of work. Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it us up to each one of you to discover it…There is no other way, my daughters and sons: either we learn to find our Lord in ordinary, everyday life, or we shall never find him.”

May each of us find God today in the ordinary work that we do!